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@Bharti 25 August 2020

Yellow and pink Flowers in front of my house.

@Bharti 25 August 2020

Good evening from India to all my read cash friends. It's 6.20 am here and ready to start a new day. Happy earning to all of you.

@Bharti 24 August 2020

Today went well earning wise. 219 points and it is 8.30 pm only. But I will call it a day. See you friends tomorrow.

@Bharti 24 August 2020

Guava season is coming Guava season is coming.

@Bharti 24 August 2020

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@Bharti 24 August 2020

Good morning to all my read cash friends. It's morning here and within a few hours people will be rushing to their offices for work. Stay safe and stay protected. Happy earning today.

@Bharti 23 August 2020

Legit paying site There is a website called litegpt.com. Here you have to perform tasks like watching ads, shortlinks and hourly faucet and you will earn in dollars. Later you have to convert it into Bitcoin and withdraw to faucet pay account. The mamimum withdrawal daily is 0,15 dollar in bitcoin. You can withdraw to PayPal also, min 2.5 dollar. Legit site. Low withdrawal threshold. All the tasks take about 45 mins to finish. You can try it out.

@Bharti 23 August 2020

Binance Adds BNB to its DeFi Staking Offering With APR Up to 25% Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added its own Binance Coin (BNB) to its decentralized finance (DeFi) staking offering, with an annual percentage rate of up to 25%, depending on the lock-in period. According to an announcement the exchange published, users can now lock their BNB tokens for either 7 days or 30 days, with annualized returns ranging from 10.8% to 25%. The minimum amount that can be locked is 50 BNB. Each BNB token is currently trading at about $22.5, meaning the minimum users can invest is over $1,100. https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/30868de0819f4740a2cbdc1d4f89b8d2?utm_source=BinanceTwitter&utm_medium=GlobalSocial&utm_campaign=GlobalSocial The invested BNB tokens will be used to participate in Kava’s collateralized debt positions (CDP), effectively entering the decentralized finance space. The integration comes after Binance added DAI, the stablecoin generated by loans on MarkerDAO, to its DeFi staking offering. https://research.binance.com/en/projects/kava It’s worth noting Kava itself is a DeFi platform backed by Binance, Huobi, and OKEx with a native token using the same name. CoinDesk quoted Binance as saying: https://www.coindesk.com/binance-launches-defi-staking-with-cryptos-kava-and-dai Our users have been requesting Binance.com giving them access to DeFi. Binance prioritizes user experience and in the spirit of the community, Binance.com now offers direct integration into these DeFi products allowing the products’ value to flow out to Binance.com users and that’s happening with KAVA and BNB to name a few. The move means Kava users won’t need to use the app’s interface to invest, but can do so directly through the Binance platform. Kava’s CEO and co-founder, Brian Kerr, said that today’s DeFi market would not resemble that of tomorrow, claiming this is just the “tip of the iceberg” of the sector when it comes to adoption.

@Bharti 23 August 2020

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@Bharti 23 August 2020

Good morning friends. May the blessings of God shower on all.

@Bharti 22 August 2020

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in fact, what won’t it change? But enthusiasm for it mainly stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding. The blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. In front of a sea of coders sitting on folding chairs, their laptops on folding tables, a man appears on a purpley-blue lit stage.  “Seven hundred blockchaingers,” the man shouts at his audience. He points at each programmer in the room. “Machine-to-machine learning … ” And then, at the top of his voice: “Energy transition! Health! Public safety and security! Future of pensions!” We are at the Blockchaingers Hackathon 2018 in Groningen,  the Netherlands. And something really, really big is happening here, according to the speakers. Earlier on, a film trailer voice asked those present if they could imagine that right here, right now, in this room, they were about to find solutions that would change “a billion lives”. A planet spontaneously combusted in the accompanying video.  And then the Dutch state secretary for the Interior, Raymond Knops arrived, decked out in tech couture: a black hoodie. He’s here as a “super accelerator” (whatever that means). “Everyone senses that blockchain is going to change government drastically,” the state secretary said. I’ve been hearing a lot about blockchain in the last few years. I mean, who hasn’t? It’s everywhere.  I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought: but what is it then, for God’s sake, this whole blockchain thing? And what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve?  That’s why I wrote this article. I can tell you upfront, it’s a bizarre journey to nowhere. I’ve never seen so much incomprehensible jargon to describe so little. I’ve never seen so much bloated bombast fall so flat on closer inspection. And I’ve never seen so many people searching so hard for a problem to go with their solution.  ‘Agents of change’ in a small Dutch town They knew nothing about the blockchain yet in Zuidhorn, a town with just under 8,000 people in the north-east of the Netherlands.  “What we did know is that it’s coming for us and that it’s disruptive,” a civil servant from the town told a Dutch weekly news magazine.  “We could sit back and wait, or choose to move forwards.” In Zuidhorn they decided to move forwards. A municipal poverty aid package for children would “be put on the blockchain”. Maarten Veldhuijs, a student and blockchain enthusiast, was given an internship with the municipality.  His first job was to explain what blockchain is. When I asked him, he said it is “a kind of system that can’t be stopped”, that it’s “actually a force of nature”, or rather, “a decentralised consensus algorithm”. OK, it’s hard to explain, he conceded eventually. “I said to Zuidhorn: ‘I’ll just build you an app, then you’ll understand’.” So he did.  The children’s aid package gives families living in poverty the right to a bicycle, trips to the theatre and the cinema, and so on. In the past, that was a nightmare of bureaucracy, receipts and documentation. But thanks to Velthuijs’s app it became simple: you scan your code in the shop, you get your bike, and the shopkeeper gets their money. Suddenly, the tiny town was proclaimed “one of the international forerunners in blockchain technology”. There was national media attention and even awards: they won a prize for pioneers in municipal work and received nominations for an IT project award and a civil service award. Local administrators became more and more enthusiastic. Velthuijs and his team of “students” were the ones who shaped this new world. But that term didn’t show enough respect. In Zuidhorn some people already preferred to call them “agents of change”. How does it work? OK, OK, agents of change, revolution, nothing can stay the same. But what is blockchain? At its core, blockchain is a glorified spreadsheet (think: Excel with one table). In other words, a new way to store data. In traditional databases there’s usually one person who’s in charge, who decides who can access and input data, who can edit and remove it. That’s different in a blockchain. Nobody’s in charge, and you can’t change or delete anything, only view and input data. The first, best-known – and practically only – use of blockchain technology is bitcoin, the digital currency that allows you to transfer money from A to B without the involvement of a bank. How does this work? Imagine that money needs to be transferred from Jesse to James. Banks know how to do this. I ask the bank to send money to James. The bank carries out the necessary checks – Is there enough money in the account? Does the account number exist? – and taps into its own database: send money from Jesse to James. This is slightly trickier with bitcoin. You announce the payment request in a kind of giant chat: one bitcoin from Jesse to James! Then there are users (so-called miners) who collect various transactions in little blocks. In order to add these blocks of transactions to the public blockchain ledger, the miners have to crack a complicated puzzle (actually, they have to guess a very large number from a very, very long list of numbers). Solving that puzzle takes about 10 minutes – and if it’s solved more quickly, for instance because people use more hardware to solve the puzzle, it automatically becomes more difficult.  Once it’s been solved, the miners add the transactions to the latest version of the blockchain ledger, in the version they have saved locally. They post an announcement in the chat: we solved it, see! Everyone can verify that the solution is correct, and everyone updates their own blockchain ledger. Voila! Transaction complete. As a reward for their work, the miners receive a handful of bitcoin.  What’s with the puzzle? Why is there a puzzle? If everyone behaved honourably, you wouldn’t need it. But imagine someone wanted to spend the same money twice. I tell both James and John: I’m giving you this bitcoin. Someone needs to check if that’s possible. And miners do the work that a bank usually does: they decide which transactions can be carried out.  Of course, a miner could try to scam the system by being in cahoots with me. But other people can see straight away if I spend the same money twice, and they can refuse to update the blockchain. So a malicious miner who’s done his best to solve the puzzle gets nothing. Because it’s so hard to guess the number, it pays to stick to the rules.  This is pretty inefficient. And it would be a lot less complicated if you trusted someone to manage your data (a bank, for instance). But that’s not what Satoshi Nakamoto did, which is what the inventor of bitcoin calls himself. He thought banks were bad news. They can make money disappear from your account. So he invented bitcoin.  And bitcoin works, it exists, and according to the latest count, there are nearly 1,855 other bitcoin-like currencies out there. And yet, bitcoin isn’t an unqualified success. There are very few shops that accept the digital currency – and rightly so. It’s very slow  (sometimes a transaction takes nine minutes, sometimes nine days!), a lot of hassle (try it for yourself – cutting open hard plastic packaging with scissors is more user friendly), and very unstable (its price rose to €17,000 euros; dropped to €3,000; rose again to now €10,000).  Not only that, but the decentralised utopia that Nakamoto dreamed about, namely avoiding trusted third parties, is still far out of reach. Ironically, there are now three mining pools – a type of company that builds rooms full of servers in Alaska and other locations way up above the Arctic circle – which are responsible for more than half of all the new bitcoin  (and also for checking payment requests).  For the time being, bitcoin has been especially successful for speculation. Someone who happened to buy 20 or 20 euros’ worth of the cryptocurrency in its early days now has enough money for several round-the-world trips.  Which brings us to the blockchain. Because impenetrable technology that brings sudden wealth is a tried and tested formula for hype. Councillors, managers and consultants read about a mysterious currency in the papers that turns people into millionaires. We need to get in on that, they think. But you can’t do much with bitcoin. But blockchain, on the other hand: it’s the technology *behind* bitcoin, which makes it cool.  Blockchain generalises the bitcoin pitch: let’s not just get rid of banks, but also the land registry, voting machines, insurance companies, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, the Lung Foundation, the porn industry and government and businesses in general. They are superfluous, thanks to the blockchain.  Power to the users!  A €600m industry  Meanwhile, Bloomberg estimates  the worldwide blockchain industry at around $700m (over €600m).  Large companies like IBM, Microsoft and Accenture have entire divisions dedicated to this revolutionary technology. In the Netherlands there are all sorts of subsidies available for blockchain innovation.   The only thing is that there’s a huge gap between promise and reality. It seems that blockchain sounds best in a PowerPoint slide. Most blockchain projects don’t make it past a press release, an inventory by Bloomberg showed. The Honduran land registry was going to use blockchain. That plan has been shelved.  The Nasdaq was also going to do something with blockchain. Not happening.  The Dutch Central Bank then? Nope.  Out of over 86,000 blockchain projects that had been launched, 92% had been abandoned by the end of 2017, according to consultancy firm Deloitte.  Why are they deciding to stop? Enlightened – and thus former – blockchain developer Mark van Cuijk explained: “You could also use a forklift to put a six-pack of beer on your kitchen counter. But it’s just not very efficient.”  I’ll list a few of the problems. Firstly: the technology is at loggerheads with European privacy legislation, specifically the right to be forgotten. Once something is in the blockchain, it cannot be removed. For instance, hundreds of links to child pornography and revenge porn were placed in the bitcoin blockchain by malicious users.  It’s impossible to remove those. Also, in a blockchain you aren’t anonymous, but “pseudonymous”: your identity is linked to a number, and if someone can link your name to that number, you’re screwed. Everything you got up to on that blockchain is visible to everyone.  The presumed hackers of Hillary Clinton’s email were caught, for instance, because their identity could be linked to bitcoin transactions. A number of researchers from Qatar University were able to ascertain the identities of tens of thousands of bitcoin users fairly easily through social networking sites.  Other researchers showed how you can de-anonymise many more people through trackers on shopping websites.  The fact that no one is in charge and nothing can be modified also means that mistakes cannot be corrected. A bank can reverse a payment request. This is impossible for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. So anything that has been stolen will stay stolen. There is a continuous stream of hackers targeting bitcoin exchanges and users, and fraudsters launching investment vehicles that are in fact pyramid schemes.  According to estimates, nearly 15% of all bitcoin has been stolen at some point.  And it isn’t even 10 years old yet. Bitcoin and Ethereum use the same amount of energy as the whole of Austria  And then there’s the environmental problem. The environmental problem? Aren’t we talking about digital coins? Yes, which makes it even stranger. Solving all those complex puzzles requires a huge amount of energy. So much energy that the two biggest blockchains in the world – bitcoin and Ethereum – are now using up the same amount of electricity as the whole of Austria.  Carrying out a payment with Visa requires about 0.002 kilowatt-hours; the same payment with bitcoin uses up 906 kilowatt-hours, more than half a million times as much, and enough to power a two-person household for about three months. And the environmental problem is only going to grow. As miners put more effort into solving the puzzles (ie, building more of those dark server caves in Alaska), the puzzles will automatically become more difficult, requiring more calculation power. It’s an endless, pointless arms race in order to facilitate the same number of transactions with more and more energy.  And for what? This is actually the most important question: what problem does blockchain actually solve? OK, so with bitcoin, banks can’t just remove money from your account at their own discretion. But does this really happen? I have never heard of a bank simply taking money from someone’s account. If a bank did something like that, they would be hauled into court in no time and lose their license. Technically it’s possible; legally, it’s a death sentence.  Of course scammers are active everywhere. People lie and cheat. But the biggest problem is scams by data suppliers  (for instance: someone secretly registers a hunk of horse meat as beef), not by data administrators (for instance: a bank makes money disappear). Some people have suggested putting the Land Registry on the blockchain. That would solve all kinds of problems in countries with corrupt administrations. Take Greece, for example, where one in five buildings is not registered. Why are these buildings not registered? Because the Greeks just start building and then there’s suddenly a house that’s not in the Land Registry.  Except a blockchain can’t do anything about that. A blockchain is a database – it’s not a self-regulating system that checks all data for correctness, let alone one that calls a halt to unauthorised building works. The same rules apply for blockchain as for any database: if people put garbage into it, what comes out is also garbage. Or as Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine wrote: “My immutable unforgeable cryptographically secure blockchain record proving that I have 10,000 pounds of aluminium in a warehouse is not much use to a bank if I then smuggle the aluminium out of the warehouse through the back door.”  Data should reflect reality, but sometimes reality changes and the data stays the same. That’s why we have notaries, supervisors, lawyers – actually, all those boring people that blockchain thinks it can do without.  Very little blockchain under the hood So what about that pioneering town of Zuidhorn, wasn’t blockchain successful there?  Well, not quite. I had a look at GitHub – a site where programmers post their software – and there was very little resembling blockchain under the hood of the children’s aid package app.  At any rate, there was one lonely miner working away, on a server, not connected to the internet, for internal research. But what those families living in poverty and shopkeepers were using was a very simple app, using very simple code, running on very simple databases.  I called Maarten Velthuijs. Hey, I noticed that your app doesn’t actually need blockchain at all.  Velthuijs: “That’s right.” But isn’t it strange that you won all those awards, even though you aren’t actually using the blockchain? Him: “Yes, it’s weird.” So how is it possible? Him: “I don’t know. We keep trying to tell people, but it doesn’t seem to stick. You’re calling me about it again now … ” So where is the blockchain? Zuidhorn is no exception. If you look carefully, you’ll see that there are all kinds of blockchain experiments that only contain a suggestion of blockchain now.  Take My Care Log,  another one of those award-winning experiments, this time in maternity care. All Dutch people with a newborn baby are allocated a certain amount of maternity care. Just like the children’s aid package in Zuidhorn, this was a bureaucratic nightmare, but now there’s an app on your smartphone where you can log how much care you have received and see how much you have left.  The final report shows that My Care Log doesn’t use any of the features that make blockchain so unique. A number of third parties were identified beforehand as exclusive miners: in other words, they have the right to veto any maternity care data logged.  Better for the environment and in accordance with privacy regulations, the report notes. But wasn’t that the whole point of blockchain, that you could do without these trusted third parties? So what are they doing here? If you ask me, they’re building a completely normal, run-of-the-mill database, but extremely inefficiently. Once you’ve cut through all the jargon, the report turns out to be a boring account of database architecture. They write about a distributed ledger (that’s a shared database), about smart contracts (that’s an algorithm) and about proof of authority (that’s the right to veto whatever is entered in the database).  Merkle trees (a way of unlinking data from checks on that data – long story)  are the only blockchain element to make the final cut. And that’s perfectly good technology, nothing wrong with it. The only thing is that Merkle trees have existed since 1979 and have been used for years, for instance in Git, a version-control system (which is used by pretty much every software developer in the world). They are not unique to the blockchain.  There’s a market for magic, and that market is big I already said it earlier: this story was a bizarre journey to nowhere.  While writing, I decided to have a chat with one of our developers. There are actually real, live developers roaming around our editorial office. This developer, Tim Strijdhorst, didn’t know much about blockchain. But he did tell me something else.  “I work with code, so people see me as a magician,” he said proudly. It was always rather surprising to him – a magician? He spends half his time yelling at his screen in frustration, while he programmes strips of duct tape to repair creaky PHP script from years and years ago. What Tim meant was that ICT is like the rest of the world – a big old mess.  And that’s something that we – outsiders, laypeople, non-tech geeks – simply refuse to accept. Councillors and managers think that problems – however large and fundamental they are – evaporate instantaneously thanks to technology they’ve heard about in a fancy PowerPoint presentation. How will it work? Who cares! Don’t try to understand it, just reap the benefits!  This is the market for magic, and that market is big. Whether it’s about blockchain, big data, cloud computing, AI or other buzzwords. Still, this kind of magical thinking might be necessary sometimes. Take the maternity care experiment. OK, so that’s not going anywhere. But Hugo de Kaat from insurance company VGZ, which took part in the study, says that “Facet, the biggest software provider in maternity care, has been mobilised by our experiment.” They are going to make a similar app, but without all the fuss, just traditional technology. And Maarten Velthuijs, could he ever have made that wonderful children’s aid package app without dousing it in blockchain? No, he admits. But he is anything but dogmatic about the technology. “Look, before we could fly, things also didn’t always work out either,” Velthuijs says. “Have a look on YouTube, there’s a man who just jumps off the Eiffel Tower with a home-made parachute! Yeah, he fell to his death of course. But we need those people, too.”  So if Maarten manages to make it work with blockchain – great! And if he doesn’t manage with blockchain, that’s good too. At least he will have learned something about what works and what doesn’t work. And the town has a nice app to show for it.  Maybe this is blockchain’s greatest merit: it’s an awareness campaign, albeit an expensive one. “Back-office management” isn’t an item on the agenda in board meetings, but “blockchain” and “innovation” are.  Thanks to all the hype, Maarten was able to develop his children’s aid package app, maternity care providers began talking to each other again, and many businesses and local authorities were gently made aware of their ramshackle data management.  Yes, it took a few wild, unmet promises, but the result is that administrators are now interested in the boring subjects that help make the world run a bit more efficiently – nothing spectacular, just a bit better.  The smartest thing about blockchain, Matt Levine wrote, is that the rest of the world was forced to “pay attention to those back-office technology upgrades, and to think that they might be revolutionary

@Bharti 21 August 2020

Report finds $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved out of China Over $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved from China-based digital wallets to other parts of the world in the last year, pointing to possibilities that Chinese investors are transferring more money than allowed out of the country, a new report claims. Chinese citizens are only allowed to buy up to $50,000 of foreign currency a year at a financial institution. In the past, wealthy citizens have circumvented the limit through foreign investments in real estate and other assets. But the government has cracked down on these methods, according to a report by Chainalysis, a blockchain forensics firm

@Bharti 21 August 2020

Hang on till the goal is reached. It is very easy to give up when the going gets tough. It can be a mental field or a physical field. Human tendency is to look for short cuts, least effort and maximum gain. This succeeds till only a certain level. To go beyond that one has to slog it out with extreme sincerety and perseverance, should not get demotivated by failures. Only those few make it to the top rung. Though some are born with a silver spoon, their story is different.

@Bharti 21 August 2020

Don't forget to help a poor person today, with any small gesture. Good morning.

@Bharti 20 August 2020

Test your love quotient All relationships aren’t ‘fun in the sun’. Holidays can sometimes spell disaster. Check out this quiz to see if you can weather any storm or if you’ve grown apart This summer may be a time of reckoning for your relationship and emotional well-being. Take this quiz and answer the questions honestly to see if things are too hot to handle: 1 Do you and your partner equally put your relationship first? A Yes, we do prioritise it B Not at all, it’s a big problem C Sometimes we prioritise it evenly 2 In childhood, did you have a set role within your family — like ‘the baby’ or ‘the troublemaker’? A Not really B Definitely C I probably did 3 Does your partner's family have too much influence on him? A No, my partner’s quite independent like that B Yes, he can’t breathe without them having an opinion C Sometimes they stick their oar in 4 Do you stay in your relationship because you fear being lonely? A No, that wouldn’t keep me in it B If I’m honest, yes C I don’t like to be lonely but I wouldn’t stay if things got too unhappy in our relationship 5 Would you say the disagreements/ arguments you have are ‘healthy’? A Yes, they tend to clear the air B No, they’re pretty toxic C Sometimes, but some of them are about point scoring 6 Do your attitudes to money clash? A No, we’re very similar about spending and budgeting B Definitely. We seem to fight over money a lot of the time C At times, we argue over spending 7 Do you expect your partner to know what you’re feeling inside about something? A No, I accept he’s not a mind-reader B Yes, of course he should C Well, he should be able to guess about the important things 8 Are you an only child or do you have siblings? A No, I have two or more siblings B Yes C No, I have one sibling 9 Do you consider yourself a ‘flexible thinker’ who can see different sides to an argument or issue? A Yes, I pride myself looking at all angles B No, I find it hard to understand others’ viewpoints C Sometimes I’m good at seeing things another way 10 Does the use of social media cause stress between you? A No, our use of social media doesn’t affect us B Yes, because I/he can’t resist checking it C At times, one of us gets annoyed by it How did you score 9+ As A summer of love lies ahead! Selecting mainly As reveals the basis for a strong relationship. You probably communicate well and try to find compromises. 9+ Bs You’re feeling the heat! B answers reveal the potential for lots of conflict between the pair of you as well as actual conflict. 9+ Cs There could be summertime blues ahead. Mainly C answers are what most couples would consider an average relationship. But you don’t want to be average, do you?.

@Bharti 20 August 2020

Golden words. Life is a struggle and a learning experience. Either we get filled up with negativity due to the problems or we become strong through them. The choice is ours.

@Bharti 19 August 2020

Another Bitcoin on Ethereum DeFi token is taking off Another Bitcoin on Ethereum DeFi token is taking off The supply of renBTC, a Wrapped Bitcoin competitor putting Bitcoin value on the Ethereum blockchain, has jumped 200% in less than week. Wrapped Bitcoin isn’t the only Bitcoin-to-Ethereum value transfer taking DeFi by storm. https://decrypt.co/ Ren project’s renBTC has seen a nearly 200% increase—from $59 million to more than $176 million—in locked BTC transferred to the Ethereum blockchain since August 13, according to **data collected from DeFi Pulse**.  https://decrypt.co/ https://defipulse.com/renvm https://d-3819459773032012171.ampproject.net/2007302351001/frame.html The substantial increase comes as DeFi continues to hit new heights in total value locked and market cap, placing renBTC firmly in second place as the favored method of porting Bitcoin value to Ethereum, behind Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). The sharp growth is more evidence that Bitcoin holders are eager to get into the DeFi game on Ethereum, and are finding a variety of ways to do so. https://decrypt.co/ RenBTC is a product of Ren, an open protocol designed to facilitate cross-chain liquidity transfers between blockchains such as Ethereum, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and more. Unlike WBTC, which uses a system of trusted third-party custodians to mint new WBTC tokens, renBTC and other Ren-based assets are generated or destroyed using smart contracts.  https://decrypt.co/ https://d-3819459773032012171.ampproject.net/2007302351001/frame.html Singapore-based Ren was founded in 2017 and raised more than $34 million in a 2018 ICO. RenBTC was released in May 2020. The recent **integration of Ren** into MyEtherWallet may be responsible for some of the recent increase in interest. https://decrypt.co/38475/myetherwallet-aave-ren-defi-protocols The recent spike in renBTC issuance increased the total supply to more than 10,000 on Monday—that’s an average of more than 100 Bitcoin converted to renBTC every day since launch. By contrast, WBTC supply is now more than 28,750; a launch in November 2018 put the average conversion at around 45 Bitcoin per day, with the vast majority of those occurring since May 2020. According to **data gathered from Dune Analytics**, the total number of Bitcoin now transferred to the Ethereum blockchain is more than 44,000, worth more than half a billion dollars. That equates to more than 1% of the total Ethereum market cap of about $47.8 billion, and more than 0.2% of the value of the total Bitcoin market cap of $222.8 billion. https://explore.duneanalytics.com/dashboard/btc-on-ethereum_1 *Decrypt* **reported earlier** in August that renBTC was approaching 10% of the total supply of Bitcoin locked on Ethereum. In just a week’s time, that figure has grown to more than 22%, even as the total supply of Bitcoin on Ethereum continues to expand across the board.  https://decrypt.co/38395/lightning-lags-wrapped-bitcoin-booms-in-defi-liquidity-race Such changes could be early indications that while WBTC is the go-to method of transferring liquidity today, the non-custodial renBTC may be the preferred option of tomorrow.

@Bharti 19 August 2020

When I go through the new posts I doubt myself whether I am in the correct site or not. It looks more like see cash than read cash. So many photographers post. There are pure photography sites. They should rather go there.

@Bharti 19 August 2020

10 books to read before you die. Here's a list of top 10 books to read before you die: 1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a novel that beckons you over and over again with its eternal contemporariness. This book is a satire on the rigid and shallow class structures and an expose on the marriage market of Georgian England. However, if you read this, you may be shocked to realize that that society probably has not changed much in modern times.  2. Never Let Me Go This science-fiction (sci-fi) novel written by the Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro is about the intricacies of love, friendship, freedom, youth, loss, and acceptance. ‘Never Let Me Go’s’ main characters are flawed, much like average humans, even though they are “clones” in a dystopic world. This book is an emotional read that teaches valuable life lessons and one of the best books to read before you die. 3. Beloved Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is important to read for many reasons. One of them is the fact that it was written by a woman of color, who won the Pulitzer for this very book. This much-loved classic is a critique of the slave trade in America. The painful spirit of ‘Beloved’ that haunts the main character is symbolic of America’s tainted past. 4. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ is an illuminating glimpse into African culture and literature. The novel deals with the shifting power dynamics in a colonized Africa. The protagonist, Okonkwo, finds it difficult to accept the laws and norms imposed on his community. Recommended by bibliophiles around the world, ‘Things Fall Apart’ is among the top books to read before you die, because it strengthens your perspective on what civilization and community mean. 5. Frankenstein Mary Shelly’s ‘Frankenstein’ is an incredibly important contribution to the literary world. It can easily qualify as the first sci-fi book to ever be written. The plot revolves around an obsessed scientist, Frankenstein, and the monster he creates. Having read this great piece of fiction, many questions about the ethos and pathos of life will crowd your mind. The most important question will be:  who is the real monster in Frankenstein? 6. The God of Small Things If there was only one book to read before you die, Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ should definitely be considered. Roy’s first fictional work and her debut novel earned her the Booker Prize. Readers have described it as a hauntingly beautiful tale of caste taboos and what breaking them means in rigid and orthodox societies.  7. To Kill a Mocking Bird A timeless American classic, Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ is extraordinary and very educational in the way it is written. It depicts the oppressive power structure in America through the eyes of its young and innocent protagonist, Scout. This is one of the must-read books before you die. Although it was written in the 20th century, American society will seem eerily similar to you even today. 8. The Great Gatsby The backdrop of this great American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the roaring 1920s. This was the time when American society was steeped in decadence and indulgence. When you read this book, you will learn all about the fragility of the American dream and the lengths people can go to achieve it. 9. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ can be best described as terrifying. The novel’s disturbing yet plausible dystopic society is a sharp critique of the patriarchal status quo and endangered women’s rights in America. Certainly one of the most important novels to read before you die, this impactful book raises several political concerns for today’s world. 10. All About Love Yet another one of the books you must read before you die, is Bell Hooks’ ‘All About Love’. It is an astounding book that teaches us all about ‘love’, the most important quality a human possesses. The novel asserts the fact that love is more of a noun than a verb. It also describes how our society has appropriated and distorted the meaning of ‘love’. Read this book to know how you can fall in love, stay in love, and cultivate love.  Now that you know which books you absolutely should read, you can get started on your journey. As you move down the list, you will find your life enriched in many different ways.

@Bharti 19 August 2020

Good morning my read cash friends. Hope this day goes very well for all of you.

@Bharti 18 August 2020

First Mover: Litecoin and Mimblewimble, Ether Futures, Chainlink, Curve The cryptocurrency litecoin (LTC) is often referred to as the silver to bitcoin’s gold. This year, litecoin investors would have been better off staying in the analog world: While bitcoin (BTC) has gained twice as much as gold, litecoin has only recently caught up with silver. https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=a7b14e79df1ad7a22244a724e273c528e73b0bbaa97d2ef8f6e599834c3dc2e7d4148db80bc102d3e2d6f54c73b693c84d3dc73dfa781e16 https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe01ca53d95fe6aa809c55deac1ebaa67d9bfadce00b4e2664ee8105c9ecca59c6cab16eba52fd8f459bb0795af51d3fff4 Some investors now foresee a rally developing in litecoin prices, with a key upgrade looming and signs that activity is increasing on the  blockchain network. The upgrade is to add a “privacy protocol” known as Mimblewimble, which is supposed to help shield the identities of holders of senders and recipients of litecoin tokens while also improving the network’s processing capacity. A testnet of Mimblewimble, in the works for almost a year, is targeted for implementation by the end of September.  And based on market data, it appears the looming addition is generating enthusiasm among users: Daily confirmed transactions on litecoin’s blockchain has more than doubled this year, reaching a 7-day average of 48,948 last week, the highest since February 2018, according to data source Glassnode.  Litecoin backers hope the token’s added privacy features from the Mimblewimble upgrade will help attract users who otherwise might gravitate toward existing privacy coins like monero (XMR) and zcash (ZEC). Those tokens come with their own risks, such as the potential for holders to get diluted by new issuance.  https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe0631e0c6e8c22e7c58a27d1a0caa99255bc551dbb10c90ce28ce1febe6b04919dbb043e3e4694f418254b769dc5899202 https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe09c4450f365df8fdf8ef7e128df82130685f00fbe2d587798a21f7e5f426d58cb5f8d6346325c64e6afc696b0133ba400 The speculation is the upgrade could help litecoin, which has gained about 50% this year to $63, catch up with bitcoin’s 64% increase.  “Litecoin’s upcoming Mimblewimble upgrade has led to a spike in transactions and active addresses,” said Matthew Dibb, co-founder of Stack, a provider of cryptocurrency trackers and index futures.  *For a longer version of this article online, click* *here**.*  https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe0609eb298a7e81ceb45c396db1bb160e98203eb841cda9aafee9b664d35e352472323d0bceb9d6ca9fd8f52549d908342 Bitcoin Watch Bitcoin price chart (TradingView) Although bitcoin appears stuck in a narrowing price range, investor interest in futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a sign of increased institutional demand, continues to grow.  https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe00fa2606bc579ec143329959aa7bab1023d5d7ac3f4adf942553da80c567876cdea1592e8398412ea02b6832cfaf17271 Open interest on the CME, or the number of outstanding contracts, rose to a fresh record high of $864 million on Friday, topping last week’s record of $841 million, according to data source Skew. The CME has recently climbed in the ranks to become the third-largest bitcoin futures exchange by open interest.  https://click.coindesk-email.com/?qs=d09f60054770afe03b813cad40c0513a4d8604fa54161649656ca5889ed7f49778dc61285a08a1d1906df9eb46d15a09c0555ee1ed71069b Growth in futures trading volume, however, has stalled over the past two weeks, which might actually be bullish: A combination of rising open interest and low volumes usually indicates investors are holding on to their positions. Typically when that happens, the market continues its prior trajectory, which in this case was up.   So bitcoin could break out of the current price-consolidation pattern, represented by an ascending triangle on the daily chart, with a convincing move above $12,000. That breakout, if confirmed, would imply a continuation of the rally from July lows below $9,000 and open the doors for stronger gains. At press time, bitcoin is changing hands at $11,870 on major exchanges

@Bharti 18 August 2020

Grayscale’s Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts Begin Trading Publicly Grayscale Investments’ Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG) and Litecoin Trust (LTCN) crypto products are set to begin trading publicly on over-the-counter markets after receiving DTC eligibility Monday. https://www.stctransfer.com/dtc-eligibility-information/ The twin funds provide institutional (and now retail) investors exposure to their namesake cryptocurrencies: bitcoin cash ($5.8 billion market cap) and litecoin ($4.3 billion market cap). https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin-cash https://www.coindesk.com/price/litecoin Grayscale has fashioned its growing family of crypto trusts as a gateway for investors who lack the technical know-how or risk tolerance to hold coins themselves. (Grayscale is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, CoinDesk’s parent firm.) Prior to the announcement, Grayscale reported accredited investors already held 6,028,000 BCHG shares and 2,500,800 LTCN shares through private placement deals. http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/08/17/2079288/0/en/Trading-to-Commence-for-Grayscale-Bitcoin-Cash-Trust-and-Grayscale-Litecoin-Trust.html Those shares can now trade publicly as long as their institutional buyers' one-year hold period has been met. "Shares in our 10 private placements are only available to institutional and accredited investors so it’s great to continue to work with regulators so more investors can access the asset class," Grayscale Managing Director Michael Sonnenshein told CoinDesk

@Bharti 18 August 2020

Crypto-mining worm steal AWS credentials Security researchers have discovered what appears to be the first crypto-mining malware operation that contains functionality to steal AWS credentials from infected servers. https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-scariest-hacks-and-vulnerabilities-of-2019/#ftag=CAD-00-10aag7e This new data-stealing feature was spotted in the malware used by TeamTNT, a cybercrime group that targets Docker installs. The group has been active since at least April, according to research published earlier this year by security firm Trend Micro. https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk-en/security/news/virtualization-and-cloud/coinminer-ddos-bot-attack-docker-daemon-ports Per the report, TeamTNT operates by scanning the internet for Docker systems that have been misconfigured and have left their management API exposed on the internet without a password. The group would access the API and deploy servers inside the Docker install that would run DDoS and crypto-mining malware. Their tactics are not as unique as multiple other cybercrime groups using the same playbook. https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-servers-infected-with-ddos-malware-in-extremely-rare-attacks/#ftag=CAD-00-10aag7e https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-linux-malware-uses-dogecoin-api-to-find-c-c-server-addresses/#ftag=CAD-00-10aag7e But in a new report published Aug. 17, UK security firm Cado Security says the TeamTNT gang has recently updated its mode of operation. https://www.cadosecurity.com/2020/08/17/teamtnt-the-first-crypto-mining-worm-to-steal-aws-credentials/ https://7ffde22b662fa24cc8a08bfad9f54f50.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 Cado researchers say that, besides the original functionality, TeamTNT has now also expanded its attacks to target Kubernetes installations. TeamTNT now steals AWS credentials But while expanding its targets base is generally pretty important, Cado researchers said there's even a bigger update -- namely a new feature that scans the underlying infected servers for any Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. If the infected Docker and Kubernetes systems run on top of AWS infrastructure, the TeamTNT gang scans for ***~/.aws/credentials*** and ***~/.aws/config***, and copies and uploads both files onto its command-and-control server. TeamTNT code that steals and uploads the AWS credentials and config files. Image: Cado Security Both of these files are unencrypted and contain plaintext credentials and configuration details for the underlying AWS account and infrastructure. Cado researchers believe the attacker has not yet moved to use any of the stolen credentials. They said they sent a collection of canary credentials to the TeamTNT C&C server, but none of those accounts have been accessed prior to Aug. 17, when they published their research. Nevertheless, when the attackers decide to do so, TeamTNT stands to seriously boost its profits, either by installing crypto-mining malware in more powerful AWS EC2 clusters directly or by selling the stolen credentials on the black market. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ https://7ffde22b662fa24cc8a08bfad9f54f50.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 Right now, Cado has only a limited view into TeamTNT's operation, as the security firm has been able to track only a few of the Monero wallet addresses that the group uses to collect mined funds. While right now TeamTNT looks to have made only around $300, the reality is that it made many many times more, as crypto-mining botnets usually employ thousands of different wallet addresses, to make tracking or seizing funds harder

@Bharti 18 August 2020

5 tips for making healthy eating more affordable From organic produce to fancy superfood supplements, leading a healthy lifestyle can seem intimidatingly expensive and time-consuming to many of us – especially if you follow certain food bloggers on social media. It’s something that personal trainer Joe Wicks has spoken out about. The Body Coach, who says he was born into a working-class family, said it’s more convenient to live a healthy lifestyle in some parts of the country than others, because of the types of food on offer. Joe Wicks has talked about the cost of healthy living (Matt Crossick/PA) "I don’t think it is just overeating, I think [the] economic situation does have a big impact," he told the PA news agency. Commenting that low-income families struggle the most, he said: "It is difficult for some families with a lot of children who want to eat healthy, and they live on a street where it is all fast food and £1.99 for a family meal." Some healthy food products can certainly be expensive, but there are also ways to save money at the supermarket and still eat nutritionally-balanced meals that will leave you feeling full and energised. Here are a few nutritionist-backed tips. **1. Maximise on pulses** Pulses such as beans, lentils and peas are a cheap, low-fat source of protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals. They also count as part of your government-recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables. "You’d be surprised at how affordable and how far beans and pulses can stretch," says nutritionist Jenna Hope, who believes they are a great dietary source of protein, B-vitamins and fibre. https://www.jennahopenutrition.com/ "To get more for your money, try buying the dried varieties," she advises. **2. Utilise frozen fruit and vegetables** Your five-a-day don’t have to come from expensive organic veg shops with fresh, loose produce. "Frozen fruits and vegetables are often just as nutritious as fresh, so they’re a good alternative when thinking about cheap dinner ideas," says Rob Hobson, nutritionist at Healthspan. https://www.healthspan.co.uk/ "Frozen fruits can be added to healthy breakfast smoothies and puddings, while vegetables such as peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn can be added to many different dishes, including soups and stews." **3. Eat canned fish** Can’t afford fresh salmon from the fishmonger? "Canned fish is a great cheap way to get your omega-3 fix," says Hope. Omega-3 is a fatty acid that plays a key role in brain functioning, and gut and bone health in the body. "Try opting for canned salmon and mackerel rather than the fresh varieties," she adds, as these can often work out several pounds cheaper. **4. Plan ahead** Hobson believes that the best way to manage your food budget is to map out what you’re going to eat across the week – that way, you won’t be tempted to rely on oven chips when you’re stuck for inspiration. "Think about how you can use leftovers the next day and turn them into another interesting dish too," Hobson adds. "For example, a pot of chilli can be used as a lunch filling to make Mexican wraps. Simply add sour cream, grated cheese and a little avocado to make a delicious midday snack." **5. Utilise the whole vegetable in cooking** Root-to-stem eating encourages you to use every edible part of plant, including the leaves, skin, seeds and stalks. "For example, you could use cauliflower leaves and carrot tops in soup, roast the seeds of a butternut squash with salt and oil for snacking, and use vegetable peel to make homemade stock," says Hope. According to Hope, the less you throw away, the further your weekly shop will go – and not only is it great for the environment, but it will save you money in the long run too.

@Bharti 17 August 2020

Devs release fix for Ethereum 2.0’s crashed testnet Prysmatic Labs has put out a fix for Ethereum 2.0’s Medalla testnet after a bug on August 14 brought the testnet to its knees. The Medalla Testnet is a public network designed to implement Ethereum 2.0’s proof-of-stake blockchain network upgrade. Just last week, the testnet had **26,000 people** keeping the network running, with more than 830,000 testnet Ethereum in play. But a simple bug crashed the network in just a few hours. https://cryptonews.com/news/ethereum-2-0-multi-client-testnet-medalla-up-30-in-active-va-7392.htm How did the testnet crash? The problem started when a third-party kit stopped working properly. On Friday, Cloudflare roughtime—a public measure of time developed by Google—was off by about four hours. **Cloudflare** is a third-party web infrastructure provider that Prysm relies on and uses to adjust users’ clocks if they are skewed.  https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/ https://d-36150315664068547778.ampproject.net/2007302351001/frame.html The bug caused havoc with the network’s internal time clocks. Different parts of the network were showing time lags of up to four hours.  The network’s validators, participants who run nodes to propose and *validate* blocks, began incorrectly proposing future blocks. Not only that but they could no longer process blocks properly or receive rewards and transaction fees.  As a result, the number of people on the testnet who were successfully validating blocks **dropped** significantly, from 75% to nearly 5%. https://beaconcha.in/charts/participation_rate Another aspect was that Prysm’s nodes did not have a proper fallback in place in the event that the roughtime servers went down. How are developers fixing the problem? Prysmatic Labs initially made a few fixes before later publishing an upgrade, which includes a bug fix. The Prysm team developed **Alpha.22**, which is the main bug fix for the Medalla testnet. It’s **designed to provide** “initial sync improvements that may assist in resolving ongoing sync issues in the Medalla test network.”  https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.22 “We need all the help we can get to get the testnet back on track and updating your nodes is a great way to add more healthy peers to the network,” the Prysmatic Labs team **announced** via Twitter.  https://twitter.com/prylabs/status/1295130521278664704?s=21 Van Loon, Ethereum protocol developer and co-founder of Prysmatic Labs, also underlined the importance of using a testnet in order to find these kinds of bugs—and to do so *before* the network goes live

@Bharti 17 August 2020

9 Apps to Boost Your Phone's Security and Privacy Android and iOS are getting better about protecting your data and device. But if you're looking for an extra line of defense, these can help. PHOTOGRAPH: TOPAN PRATAMA/GETTY IMAGES Android and iOS are both constantly evolving to be more secure and protect your privacy, but that doesn't mean they can't use a little help here and there. We've rounded up 9 great security apps for your phone right here, eschewing the standard antivirus and VPN options to bring you some lesser-known utilities that can really make a difference to how well protected your phone and all the data on it is. By the way, we are aware that this list is a little Android-heavy, but that's due to the nature of Android and iOS. Apple takes more control over the security of iOS, whereas Google is more willing to let third-party apps step in—iOS apps simply aren't allowed to scan for viruses, analyze networks in detail, reconfigure user permissions, or access any of the other deep hooks in the software that a serious security app would need. Access Dots Make sure your device's camera and mic aren't used without your permission. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA ACCESS DOTS https://5e973d766e741503c48d4fa3c22b77ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 iOS 14 adds a new feature to iPhones that shows an on-screen alert if an app is trying to use your device's camera or mic—just like the 'active' light that might be next to your laptop's webcam. Access Dots brings the same functionality to Android, quickly and easily. There's not much to the app, but it's incredibly useful: You'll see an indicator in the status bar if an app has secretly enabled the camera or the mic. Make a donation to support the app's development, and you can change the position and size of the indicator dot too. **Access Dots** for **Android** (Freemium) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=you.in.spark.access.dots Jumbo Deleting old tweets is just one of many tasks Jumbo can take on. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA JUMBO Social network privacy settings are difficult to understand and constantly changing—but Jumbo can do the hard work for you when it comes to making sure you're not sharing more about yourself than you'd like. It can also help you keep your social accounts locked down. The app connects directly to your online accounts to offer a variety of useful services: deleting your old tweets automatically, stopping Google from collecting quite as much information about you, limiting ad personalization on Facebook, and much more. https://player.cnevids.com/interlude/wired/iframe/?pageURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2F9-apps-smartphone-security&pageType=amp-article&tags=security%2Csmartphones%2CApps%2Cprivacy&embeddedVideos=5f2178a1bcdfff5e2a4786ac&intcid=inline_amp&hasCompanion=0&analyticsUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2F9-apps-smartphone-security&section=Security&ampTargeting=%7B%22cnt_copilotid%22%3A%5B%225f35663ced34684a71e81df2%22%5D%2C%22cnt_platform%22%3A%5B%22amp%22%5D%2C%22cnt_tags%22%3A%5B%229-apps-smartphone-security%22%2C%22security%22%2C%22smartphones%22%2C%22apps%22%2C%22privacy%22%2C%22Apps%22%5D%2C%22ctx_page_channel%22%3A%5B%22security%22%5D%2C%22ctx_page_slug%22%3A%229-apps-smartphone-security%22%2C%22ctx_template%22%3A%22amp-article%22%2C%22partner%22%3A%5B%22amp%22%5D%2C%22pos%22%3A%5B%22mid-content%22%5D%2C%22pos_instance%22%3A%5B%221%22%5D%7D#amp=1 **Jumbo** for **Android** and **iOS** (Freemium) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumboprivacy https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jumbo-privacy-security/id1454039975 GlassWire GlassWire keeps watch on how much data apps are using. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA GLASSWIRE GlassWire keeps a careful eye on app data usage—you can see which of the apps on your smartphone are using up the most data (both in terms of uploads and downloads), get instant alerts when a new app starts communicating with the internet, and more. Whether you're worried about your data plan while you're away from the Wi-Fi at home or you want to make sure certain apps aren't sending data back to base when they shouldn't be, GlassWire can help. There's an integrated firewall available inside the app as well. **GlassWire** for **Android** (Freemium) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glasswire.android Norton App Lock Lock down certain apps with Norton App Lock. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA NORTON https://5e973d766e741503c48d4fa3c22b77ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 Passcode lock apps add an extra layer of security beyond the main lock screen on your phone, which can come in very handy if you're always sharing your device with a colleague, partner, or young relative—they effectively seal off part of your phone. We've covered these apps in more detail **here**, but our favorite option on Android is Norton App Lock (not least because it comes from a brand you can trust). It's simple to use, it's completely free, and it supports PINs, passwords, and patterns for unlocking apps. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-passcode-lock-any-app-on-your-phone/?intcid=inline_amp **Norton App Lock** for **Android** (Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symantec.applock Fing Use Fing to figure out what's going on on your network. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA FING Are all the devices on your home network yours, or are your neighbors making use of your broadband too? Fing can tell you exactly what's on your network at any given moment, which is helpful for troubleshooting problems as well as keeping your home Wi-Fi secure. It has plenty of other strings to its bow too: Fing will check the speed of your web connection, attempt to find hidden cameras in your hotel room, warn you about internet outages, tell you about new devices connecting to your network, and more. https://5e973d766e741503c48d4fa3c22b77ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 **Fing** for **Android** and **iOS** (Freemium) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.android.fing https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fing-network-scanner/id430921107 Alfred Home Security Camera Make use of an old phone or tablet with Alfred. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA ALFRED Did you know that with the right app you can repurpose an old phone or tablet into a security camera? Whether you want to keep an eye on the back yard or a sleeping baby, Alfred Home Security Camera makes it easy to get everything set up and configured. Obviously you're going to need more than one device here—one to do the video recording and another to watch the feed from wherever you happen to be—but Alfred offers all the features you'll need, including motion detection, two-way audio, and a built-in siren. **Alfred Home Security Camera** for **Android** and **iOS** (Freemium) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivuu https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alfred-home-security-surveillance/id966460837 Twilio Authy You should have 2FA in place, and Twilio Authy can help. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA TWILIO AUTHY https://5e973d766e741503c48d4fa3c22b77ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 We've written about the importance of **two-factor authentication** (2FA) many times, but we're not going to stop mentioning it—it makes a huge difference to the security of your online accounts, and Authy is one of the best tools for the job of managing your 2FA codes. https://www.wired.com/story/protect-accounts-two-factor-authentication/?intcid=inline_amp Adding new accounts is easy, and so is generating login codes, and so is moving Authy between devices, all of which makes 2FA as stress-free as it should be. 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SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA FIREFOX There are privacy-focused browsers, and then there's Firefox Focus—a browser that blocks ads and trackers by default, leaving you with a fast, secure, and mostly untracked browsing experience (though be aware of **the limits** of this type of locked-down browsing). https://www.wired.com/story/incognito-mode-explainer/?intcid=inline_amp Even better, there's a big trash can icon up at the top of the Firefox Focus screen that will wipe out your browsing history, stored passwords, and site cookies with a single tap—it's like having instant access to a private or incognito mode whenever you step online. https://5e973d766e741503c48d4fa3c22b77ae.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html?n=0 **Firefox Focus** for **Android** and **iOS**(Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.focus https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/id1055677337 Bouncer Take more control over app permissions with Bouncer. SCREENSHOT: DAVID NIELD VIA BOUNCER It's not always easy to keep on top of app permissions, but Bouncer gives you a little more control over what apps are allowed to do on your Android device. It essentially lets you grant permissions to apps on a temporary, one-off basis whenever it's necessary. Say you want to give Facebook permission to tag a photo, but don't want it accessing your location the rest of the time, then Bouncer can help. Permissions can be revoked after a certain time or when the app closes, and it keeps a log of app permission activity as well. **Bouncer** for **Android** (Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.permission

@Bharti 17 August 2020

Litecoin Prepare to Breakout It’s been just over 3 months since at the time a single Litecoin was valued at $46. Bac prediction based on chain trend analysis comparing transactions and market price in an attempt to find a fundamental stable value. *“This ratio is roughly 600 Txs : 1 USD with an acceptable error drop off of around +-30%. Yes, that is a significant value but in relation to volatility this would put the current Litecoin upper and lower bounds at $61 and $33 respectively.* *If we continue to see this steady increase in transaction usage on the network we should likewise expect to see price follow.”* Well prices now sit at just over $61 and is right under the logarithmic multi year down trend that began in 2017 as well as the horizontal resistance of ~$65. Considering recent trends in the crypto space, I am looking for a confident and solid breakout to the upside. TX:Price ratio analysis, is currently undervaluing the network based on my methodology. As of writing, the daily network transactions have risen from ~~20,000/day to~~ 45,000+/day, a drastic increase which gives us the lower, middle and Upper bounds of $52.5, $75 and $97.5 respectively. *“Anything outside these bounds and price can be considered overvalued or oversold fundamentally.”* We have not seen sustained network usage at this level since the beginning of 2018, the main difference being back then price was incredibly over valued according to TX:Price ratio, likely indicating that the network has adequately matured 3 years on to hold these prices. The activity Litecoin is seeing has been sustained and growing at a steady rate alongside the rest of the market, so i see no cause for concern at these levels. Upon a breakout, the only resistance Litecoin will have left is horizontal levels, the first of which is at $81 and the second at $140. Assuming trends continue it looks like Litecoin will be on track to revisit the triple digits once more before the end of 2020 and this time hopefully permenantly.

@Bharti 16 August 2020

Things Men Fake About When They Want To Impress A Woman Compliments, when poured in the right way, can make or break a person’s day. In fact, it’s the best way to get anyone’s attention. So, when a man wants to impress a woman they wouldn’t mind showering her with praises like, “I think you are the most amazing person I have ever met. Where were you before?” or “Your smile means the world to me, honey!” While a few may mean it earnestly, others may be just saying the words to impress the woman. When it comes to faking, people don’t just stop at compliments. It can be emotions, lifestyle or even their attitude. While it’s true for both the sexes, let’s look at a few common things that some men may lie about to impress a woman. 02/8 Likes and dislikes https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#028-likes-and-dislikes Before you thank your stars for meeting a man whose likes and dislikes are completely similar to yours, give it a second thought. Many men fake about their areas of interest to surprise their dates and in turn, earn their rapt attention. If you have a keen interest in animal welfare, history, art, reading and so does he, ask him a few more questions on these subjects and it would clear all your doubts. Some error has happened while rendering this embed 03/8​ Past relationships https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#038-past-relationships Some men like to project themselves as ‘ideal boyfriends’ by blaming their ex-girlfriend or the circumstances for their failed relationships. They paint a gloomy picture of their past and try to gain sympathy. Well, things could have gone haywire in their past but was he as innocent as he sounds? Doing a little background check won’t be a bad idea. 04/ 8​Physical fitness https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#04-8-physical-fitness This is one of the most common topics men fake about. A lot of men believe that fitness is a test of their muscularity, and when they don’t have it, they simply fake it. If a men brags about how he can do 40 push-ups in a minute, lift tons of weights with ease or run on treadmill for an hour, take his words with a pinch of salt. 05/8 Faking expenditure https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#058-faking-expenditure Lying about their salary and faking a lavish lifestyle is not very uncommon among men. However, they forget that they are simply inviting trouble by lying about their lifestyle. They can’t keep up with this enormous expenditure for a long time and ultimately, they will arrive at a point when they will have to stop showing-off. 06/8 His love for your friends https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#068-his-love-for-your-friends If even he hates the sight of your close friends for some reason, he might put up a fake smile and string a few words together to praise them. But why, boy? You are interested in the girl and not in her entire friend circle. It is the best to be honest about this issue and happily maintain a distance from her friends if you aren’t very fond of them. Some error has happened while rendering this embed 07/8​ When he says he thinks about all the time https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#078-when-he-says-he-thinks-about-all-the-time It is not practically possible to think about someone round the clock. Even if a man manages to do that, it only shows how idle he is. No sane person can think about one topic the whole day because there are so many things to do in a day. 08/8 I am a feminist! https://read.cash/@Bharti/things-men-fake-about-when-they-want-to-impress-a-woman-dfbf9c7d#088-i-am-a-feminist Not every man understands the meaning of the word ‘feminism’ but loves to call himself a feminist. He might be the same man who will advise you to return home before 8:00 pm or would be gossiping about his female colleagues for performing better than him at work.

@Bharti 16 August 2020

15 Ways to Stay Sane While Trading Crypto This is not a guide of how to trade crypto. This is not about how to make money, how to invest, or where to find alpha.  But if you’ve dabbled in crypto-trading? Then you know this one thing: *It can be all-consuming*. When your money is on the line, suddenly you’re checking the prices more than you check social media, you obsess about the charts, and even your dreams are filled with candlesticks and Elliot Waves.   https://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/111401.asp Oh, and there’s never a break. Stock day-traders might be Red Bull-pounding stress-monsters from 9:30am to 4pm on Monday to Friday, but they are then forced to relax when the market closes. Crypto is always on. Trades beckon. If you’re asleep at 2am? Maybe you just missed a 10X opportunity. Spent Sunday morning at brunch? Maybe you failed to avoid a -40% bloodbath. So it’s easy to stare at the screens – and stare and stare and stare. ***See also:*** ***Crypto Trading 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Candlesticks*** https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-trading-101-beginners-guide-candlesticks “The casino never closes,” says Scott Melker, a trader who goes by the alias The Wolf of All Streets (and one of The Men Who Stare at Charts). “It’s just very, very difficult to detach. It’s a forced skill.”  https://twitter.com/scottmelker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.coindesk.com/the-men-who-stare-at-charts So how do you cultivate that skill? More broadly, how do you protect your mental health while investing or trading in cryptocurrency? We spoke with Kevin Zhou, head trader of Galois Capital; Bobby Cho, partner at CMS Holdings, and Melker to get some insight on best practices.  https://galois.capital/ Each trader stressed – repeatedly – that this is not financial advice. Instead these are tips, strategies, and guidance for how to stay sane.   1. Set trading hours. Sure, the exchanges are open 24/7, but that doesn’t mean you need to be. “I treat it like a business,” says Melker, who only trades between 9am and 5pm, and then he has dinner, puts his kids to bed, and lives like a normal person.  2. Make a plan. Stick to it. Each trader emphasized mental discipline. “Do your homework in terms of why you found a trade interesting, and what you intend to do with it,” says Cho. “I tend to take a lot of notes, like ‘What’s the risk/reward profile of what I’m doing? What am I willing to make on the trade, and what can I stand to lose?’” Cho says that once you’ve “capped” your potential losses and gains, then you’re less likely to impulsively act on emotion. Melker agrees, noting that “A lot of people stare at the charts, willing it [the price] to go up or down.” He doesn’t do this. Instead, Melker plans his trades in advance, creates his entry and exit points, and then he ignores the chart, as it’s “in the hands of the Trading Gods.” He steps away and goes about his life. “The biggest mistake people make is emotionally changing their plan, mid-trade,” says Melker. “Moving your stop-loss down because you think it’s about to bounce 100X right after you got stopped-out.”   3. Tame the greed. Zhou says the biggest problems in trading are hubris, fear and greed. Keep the emotions neutral. Focus on the methodology, the framework of the trade, the cold logic of the percentages. “You shouldn’t feel too good about the wins that you have, and you shouldn’t feel too bad about the losses,” says Zhou. But okay, real talk? That’s easier said than done. How do you cope with the losses? (Because there will be losses.)  4. Treat losses as an opportunity to learn. Every loss, says Zhou, can teach you something about trading. Reframe the loss. Don’t let it be a trigger for anger, despair, or self-flagellation. Let it be a trigger for learning. “Just analyze the situation,” says Zhou. “The first question is, did you take that loss because you came in with a positive edge – more than 50% – and then you got unlucky? And don’t lie to yourself.” If you simply got unlucky, well then just roll with it, as that happens and you need to focus on the long-term. The second question Zhou says you should ask: “If that’s not the case, if you actually made the wrong decision, then try to figure out what led you to that wrong decision. Was the logic unsound? Or was the logic sound, but your assumptions unsound?” Cold analysis can temper hot anxiety.  **IT’S JUST VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO DETACH. IT’S A FORCED SKILL.** 5. Exercise. Obvious? Maybe. But also overlooked. “It’s essential that you go to the gym, or exercise somehow, to clear your head,” says Melker.  6. Compartmentalize. Especially in the early days of crypto-trading, it’s natural to obsess about the prices, positions, and possibilities throughout the day no matter what you’re doing – in the shower, on a date, even playing with your kids. Cho checks this impulse by compartmentalizing his different activities in life, and then lasering his attention on whatever he’s doing. “On Saturday morning, my kids are going to wake up around 7:30 or 8, and I’m going to spend the morning with them,” he says, and in that time he doesn’t check the charts or think about crypto. His priority is the kids. Conversely, on Monday morning when he’s in trading-mode, that gets his full attention. “If you don’t have these priorities,” says Cho, “then your focus is all over the place, and you’re half-assing everything.”  7. Don’t put too much financial pressure on trading. The trades become harder to stomach when your livelihood depends on the outcome. It’s harder to think rationally. It’s easy to get swallowed up by anxiety, which might nudge you to chase losses or gains. “Take the pressure off with multiple income streams,” says Melker. “It’s helpful if you don’t need to make $1,000 a day trading.”  8. Strip away the emotions. This one’s critical enough to warrant a bit of repetition. “It’s extremely important to have emotional control while you’re trading,” says Zhou – important for both mental sanity and financial performance. The best way to develop that emotional control? Practice. Repetition. Time on task. “When you start out trading, it’s very normal that when things go well, you feel like a genius, like you’re on top of the world. And when things go badly, you feel like an idiot, and you get depressed,” says Zhou. Then you keep trading. You keep learning. “Over time, as you do it more and more, you get used to it, and it doesn’t affect your day-to-day. It’s really important to get to that point, because you definitely don’t want emotions affecting you.” 9. Take breaks. Cho frequently steps away from the phone, laptop, charts, crypto Twitter. He says this is necessary for balance and sanity. “Ultimately there’s a whole world outside of crypto,” says Cho, and then laughs a bit. “Although some would say there isn’t.”  10. Think of yourself like “the house.” In casinos they say the house always wins, because over the long haul, once you tune out the noise of flukey players who do well at blackjack, the house enjoys the percentage edge. If you have a 52% chance of winning, you will rack up many Ls, and maybe you might even lose three or five or ten times in a row….but when the sample size gets to be 10,000, you will win around 52% of the time. Melker says that if you’re trading with the right mindset, that’s how you view each trade…and let the losses roll off you. “It’s almost like this long-term mathematical formula,” says Melker. “If you execute, and you do it long enough, you just win a little more than you lose.” Melker says that at this point, individual losses “don’t affect me at all.” 11. Cultivate other priorities. Or as Melker puts it, *Get a life*.  This helps keep balance and can curb the obsession. “I have two children, and I have a wife,” he says. “It’s important to me not to be an absentee father, or a slave to my iPhone.” Along those lines… 12. Practice good time management. “Time management is a key feature in everything I do,” says Cho.  “In any given hour I ask, what is my priority? And understanding that list of priorities is very important.” If his priority for the hour is to research Company X, then he will focus on that, and only that, and he won’t obsess about crypto prices. Conversely, if the focus of the hour is to trade, then that commands his attention and he won’t worry about Company X. “Obviously you’re not agnostic about what’s happening in the market,” says Cho, “but establishing priorities helps.”   13. Schedule time for content consumption. Crypto trading and investing, for many, is more than just price action: It’s also about understanding the tech, the philosophy, and the constant changes to this fascinating new world. That can be a lot to keep up with. Instead of getting distracted by every tweet and every crypto article – which can add anxiety, fuel ADD, and take you away from your current area of focus – Cho simply dumps new content in what is essentially a “to read later” bucket, and then catches up when he’s ready to focus on that and only that. 14. Ditch the phone. In the old universe where people went out to restaurants for dinner, pre-COVID, Melker and his wife had a deal: “If we were out, I would leave my phone in the car,” he says. “When the phone’s in the car, I’m not going to think about it.”  Alternatively, in a dissenting opinion, here’s a different perspective entirely: Contrarian Take: Accept that there is no such thing as work/life balance. “I’m a little contrarian here,” Zhou says, acknowledging that this cuts against the grain of the *Maintain Balance* ethos. “For people who really want to get good at something, there’s no such thing as workplace balance.” He adds, “Sometimes you lose sleep. Sometimes you lose friends.” Zhou admits that this can take a toll, and maybe it means that your social life takes a hit. “But there’s a lot of opportunity here,” he says. “We can rest while we’re dead.” 15. Know that crypto obsession will never truly go away. Even the most seasoned, well-balanced traders say that, at times, they can still surrender to compulsive price-checking impulse. “It still remains a challenge at times,” says Melker. “You can’t predict when bitcoin is going to strap you into the roller-coaster.”  And finally, a bonus consideration:  Value your time over money This is less a specific hack and more of a general principle. In essence, the concept is this: *Don’t forget what really matters*. “The most valuable lesson you learn is that the point of your money is to buy free time,” says Melker. “It’s not so you can spend more time trying to make money. Trading should be one of those rare opportunities where, if you’re successful, you’re not slaving away to make someone else wealthy.” In other words, if you’re spending 24/7 staring at crypto charts, and never doing anything else with your life… have you really beaten the system? Have you really won the game? “If your money is not buying you more time,” says Melker, “You’re doing it wrong.”

@Bharti 16 August 2020

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